Dr Piper graduated from The University of Tasmania, and received his PhD in Developmental Biology from The University of Queensland in 2003. His PhD, performed at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience with Prof Melissa Little, centered on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms (...)

Have a chat with LEI's Managing Director Professor David Mackey.
Meet the staff and clinicians at the new $5M Hi-tech clinic.
Take a tour of our state-of-the-art Outback Vision Van.
Try the simulator glasses that mimic eye diseases. Everyone welcome to learn about the special gift of sight.

Professor Carol Brayne is an internationally recognised leader in academic public health at University of Cambridge, UK.
Professor Brayne has pioneered the study of dementia in the general population, launching two major longitudinal studies of the health and cognitive functioning of 30,000 older (...)

You're invited to a high-calibre public panel discussion on the impact of President Trump's Administration on the Indo-Pacific region. Panellists will discuss:
What will U.S. leadership in the Indo-Pacific look like under the Trump Administration?
How will the Indo-Pacific region's economic and (...)

Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 21 December 1965, the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) was the first of the United Nations human rights treaties to be adopted. Applying in a different context over 50 years later and in a rapidly (...)

Our stunning campus offers a vibrant and dynamic learning environment with its mix of heritage buildings, contemporary architecture and beautiful gardens. Current UWA students will take you on a tour of our campus giving you an insight into what it’s like to be a student at UWA.

As part of our mission to engage all communities around the University, provide opportunities for learning and discovery and advance the capability of our NAO robot we engaged our own UWA Computer Science (...)

Tuesday 07

18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Fifty Years of Writing Australian History from the Periphery : The Inaugural Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture

Henry Reynolds is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He grew up and was educated in Hobart and after a few years in Europe he took up a lectureship in history at the Townsville University (...)

Thursday 09

16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series 2017 : The ‘Works of the Old Men’ in (Saudi) Arabia

For over a century aerial archaeology has been in the vanguard of archaeological discovery and recording. Thanks to a unique twenty year programme of aerial reconnaissance in Jordan combined with the growing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery we can now thickly ‘populate’ with often (...)

17:30 - BOOK LAUNCH - Book Launch: Like Nothing on this Earth by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth : Celebrate the release of this significant literary history of the Wheatbelt

You are invited to join us for a public lecture on the escalating South China Sea dispute and how the assertive policies of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte are shaping this dispute and wider East Asian geopolitics.
In 2017, the Philippines are chairing the ASEAN bloc in its 50th year. As the (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - ‘Hardly any women at all’? Literary landscapes at the time of Jane Austen : A Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Institute of Advanced Studies Public Lecture

In a famous scene in Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland confesses to Henry Tilney that she rarely reads history, finding it ‘tiresome’. ‘I read it a little as a duty’, she admits, ‘but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or (...)

In this paper Julian discusses the positive impact reclaiming language has for first people. He cites the growing understanding that Indigenous language is inseparable from culture - that language is integral in affirming and maintaining wellbeing, self-esteem and identity (...)